Note that the last two of these are actually competing projects both
delivering complete gcc toolchain for MS Windows:
-- http://mingw.org - delivers gcc toolchain targeting 32-bit Windows
- platform.
+=over 4
+
+=item L<http://mingw.org>
+
+Delivers gcc toolchain targeting 32-bit Windows platform.
-- http://mingw-w64.sf.net - delivers gcc toolchain targeting both 64-bit
- Windows and 32-bit Windows platforms (despite the project name "mingw-w64"
- they are not only 64-bit oriented). They deliver the native gcc compilers
- and cross-compilers that are also supported by perl's makefile.
+=item L<http://mingw-w64.sf.net>
+
+Delivers gcc toolchain targeting both 64-bit Windows and 32-bit Windows
+platforms (despite the project name "mingw-w64" they are not only 64-bit
+oriented). They deliver the native gcc compilers and cross-compilers
+that are also supported by perl's makefile.
+
+=back
The Borland C++ and Microsoft Visual C++ compilers are also now being given
away free. The Borland compiler is available as "Borland C++ Compiler Free
Microsoft Platform SDK Nov 2001 (64-bit compiler and tools)
MinGW64 compiler (gcc version 4.4.3 or later)
-The Windows SDK can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/.
-The MinGW64 compiler is available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64.
+The Windows SDK can be downloaded from L<http://www.microsoft.com/>.
+The MinGW64 compiler is available at L<http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64>.
The latter is actually a cross-compiler targeting Win64. There's also a trimmed
down compiler (no java, or gfortran) suitable for building perl available at:
-http://strawberryperl.com/package/kmx/64_gcctoolchain/mingw64-w64-20100123-kmx-v2.zip
+L<http://strawberryperl.com/package/kmx/64_gcctoolchain/mingw64-w64-20100123-kmx-v2.zip>
NOTE: If you're using a 32-bit compiler to build perl on a 64-bit Windows
operating system, then you should set the WIN64 environment variable to "undef".
A port of dmake for Windows is available from:
- http://search.cpan.org/dist/dmake/
+L<http://search.cpan.org/dist/dmake/>
Fetch and install dmake somewhere on your path.
of the Windows SDK like previous versions did.
These packages can be downloaded by searching in the Download Center at
-http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en. (Providing exact
+L<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en>. (Providing exact
links to these packages has proven a pointless task because the links keep on
changing so often.)
SDK" components are required) for more header files and libraries.
These packages can both be downloaded by searching in the Download Center at
-http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en. (Providing exact
+L<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en>. (Providing exact
links to these packages has proven a pointless task because the links keep on
changing so often.)
installed separately, but is included in the "Visual C++ Toolkit 2003" anyway.
These packages can all be downloaded by searching in the Download Center at
-http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en. (Providing exact
+L<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en>. (Providing exact
links to these packages has proven a pointless task because the links keep on
changing so often.)
Perl can be compiled with gcc from MinGW release 3 and later (using gcc 3.2.x
and later). It can be downloaded here:
- http://www.mingw.org/
+L<http://www.mingw.org/>
You also need dmake. See L</"Make"> above on how to get it.
The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) offers a wealth
of extensions, some of which require a C compiler to build.
-Look in http://www.cpan.org/ for more information on CPAN.
+Look in L<http://www.cpan.org/> for more information on CPAN.
Note that not all of the extensions available from CPAN may work
in the Windows environment; you should check the information at
-http://testers.cpan.org/ before investing too much effort into
+L<http://testers.cpan.org/> before investing too much effort into
porting modules that don't readily build.
Most extensions (whether they require a C compiler or not) can
either get dmake from the location mentioned earlier or get an
old version of nmake reportedly available from:
- http://download.microsoft.com/download/vc15/Patch/1.52/W95/EN-US/nmake15.exe
+L<http://download.microsoft.com/download/vc15/Patch/1.52/W95/EN-US/nmake15.exe>
Another option is to use the make written in Perl, available from
CPAN.
- http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Make/
+L<http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Make/>
You may also use dmake. See L</"Make"> above on how to get it.